Pablo Larraín won the Berlinale Silver Bear this year for his mordantly creepy priest drama "The Club," which represents Chile in the foreign Oscar race and just received a Golden Globe nomination. With an ensemble featuring Alfredo Castro (also terrific in Venice winner "Desde Alla"), Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers and Jaime Vadell, the film settles into a seaside town where four former Catholic priests languish in exile, doing penance for their shady pasts while obsessively betting on a greyhound they're training for local dog races. But their quiet lives are shattered by the arrival of, first, a counselor sent by the Vatican, and then a disgruntled victim of Catholic abuse, inevitably raining a spiritual plague upon their houses. Reminiscent of Pasolini's "Teorema," "The Club" is an astute examination of an interloper's effects on the power dynamics of a group. "The Club" is the fifth film by Larraín,...
- 12/11/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Above: Franciszek Starowieyski’s 1970 poster for Mademoiselle (Tony Richardson, UK/France, 1966).In Christopher Nolan’s new short film about the Quay Brothers (titled—with Nolan’s predilection for mono-nomenclature—simply Quay) he gives us a clue to some of the twin animators’ influences in the film’s opening shots. After drawing back the curtains in their curiosity shop of a studio, Timothy Quay opens a glass cupboard to remove a book. Blink and you’ll miss it, but on the shelves are books on Marcel Duchamp, Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz, Czech artists Jan Zrzavy, Vlastislav Hofman and Jindrich Heisler, and—most prominently—a book on Polish artist Franciszek Starowieyski.I wrote a few years ago about the Quays’ love of Polish film posters and Franciszek Starowieyski (1930-2009) is one of the indisputable later masters of the Polish school. From the mid 50s until the late 80s he produced some 100 film...
- 8/30/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Funny Balloons has secured sales of the Berlin Competition contender from the Oscar-nominated director of No.
Pablo Larrain’s The Club has been sold to the UK (Network Releasing) and France (Wild Bunch) on the eve of its world premiere in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 5-15).
The deals were secured by Paris-based sales company Funny Balloons.
At its world premiere in Berlin tomorrow (Feb 9), Larrain will be joined by regular collaborator Alfredo Castro, plus actor Roberto Farias, and producer Juan de Dios Larrain.
The Club centres on four priests who live in seclusion in a small seaside town, each one of them paying penance for their past crimes.
But their routine is disrupted by the arrival of a fifth ‘inmate’, a newly disgraced companion who brings with him the past they thought they had left behind.
Pablo Larrain’s The Club has been sold to the UK (Network Releasing) and France (Wild Bunch) on the eve of its world premiere in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 5-15).
The deals were secured by Paris-based sales company Funny Balloons.
At its world premiere in Berlin tomorrow (Feb 9), Larrain will be joined by regular collaborator Alfredo Castro, plus actor Roberto Farias, and producer Juan de Dios Larrain.
The Club centres on four priests who live in seclusion in a small seaside town, each one of them paying penance for their past crimes.
But their routine is disrupted by the arrival of a fifth ‘inmate’, a newly disgraced companion who brings with him the past they thought they had left behind.
- 2/8/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
World premieres of Wim Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine, Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Elser (13 Minutes) and Pablo Larraín’s The Club added to programme.
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) has unveiled its full Competition line-up.
Some 21 of the 23 titles will be world premieres, and 19 features from across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia will compete for Golden and Silver Bears.
New additions include Wim Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine, which will play out of competition. The film, shot in 3D, stars James Franco as a writer who accidentally hits and kills a child while out driving. Co-stars include Charlotte Gainsbourg and Rachel McAdams.
As previously announced, Wenders will be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement and will have ten of his films screened as part of the Homage strand.
Also playing out of competition will be the world premiere of Elser (13 Minutes) from Oliver Hirschbiegel, the German...
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) has unveiled its full Competition line-up.
Some 21 of the 23 titles will be world premieres, and 19 features from across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia will compete for Golden and Silver Bears.
New additions include Wim Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine, which will play out of competition. The film, shot in 3D, stars James Franco as a writer who accidentally hits and kills a child while out driving. Co-stars include Charlotte Gainsbourg and Rachel McAdams.
As previously announced, Wenders will be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement and will have ten of his films screened as part of the Homage strand.
Also playing out of competition will be the world premiere of Elser (13 Minutes) from Oliver Hirschbiegel, the German...
- 1/19/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Sundance Institute revealed their Us and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary competition titles today for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The question, of course, is which films will break out this year after the 2011 Sundance Film Festival brought titles such as ,i>Martha Marcy May Marlene, Pariah, Like Crazy and Take Shelter to the forefront. I have never attended the Sundance Film Festival, primarily because I have never heard good things about the experience, plus it means I can save my money for my trip to Cannes where I have typically seen the some of the best films Sundance had to offer including Blue Valentine two years ago and Martha Marcy May Marlene this year. Which means it serves as a good way for me to find films to make sure I add to my Cannes 2012 must see list... can you figure out which ones they may be? When it...
- 11/30/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
At the Festival do Rio, Rio de Janeiro's international film festival, a restored print of veteran filmmaker Roberto Farias' Rico Ri à Toa / The Rich Laugh for Nothing was screened at the Cine Odeon to celebrate 10 years of the Center of Brazilian Film Researchers' restoration of Brazilian productions. "I never thought that someone someday would be interested in [my movie]," Farias, 78, told the audience. "[Your presence here] reminds me of the film's debut." According to Edu Fernandes at Uol Cinema, Rico Ri à Toa tells the story of a taxi driver named Zé da Fubica (played by comedian Zé Trindade) who receives a large sum of money by way of a false inheritance — it's actually stolen money. Even after moving to posh Ipanema, the cabbie keeps some of his same old habits, much to the annoyance of his wife. Recently, Farias presided the committee that picked Lula, [...]...
- 10/6/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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